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U.S. shrugs off North Korean missile tests
Recent missile launches by North Korea haven't led to additional security concerns on the Korean Peninsula, a U.S. government spokesman said. The Yonhap news agency in South Korea reported that Monday marked the third consecutive day that North Korea launched short-range missiles over the Sea of Japan. A North Korean underground test of a nuclear device in February sparked concerns about ...
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One mans escape from Camp 14 and North Korea
Only one prisoner born in North Korea's gulag is known to have escaped to tell his story. A Q&A with Blaine Harden, the journalist who wrote about Shin ...
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North Koreas hidden labor camps exposed
A new UN panel is vowing to hold North Korea's Kim regime to 'full accountability' for decades of mass crime and murder. Will Pyongyang face ICC ...
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South Korean top court upholds ruling against man convicted for emailing North Korean spy
South Korean Army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of the Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Monday, May 20, 2103. North Korea fired short-range projectiles into its own eastern waters Monday for a third straight day, Seoul officials said. The North said it was bolstering deterrence against enemy attack. (AP Photo/Ahn ...
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China boat captain says hijackers were in North Korea military uniforms in latest incident to stoke tensions
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits Breeding Station No. 621 of the Korean People's Army, under construction at an undisclosed location in North Korea, in an undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency on May 21, ...
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Boat hijack stokes tension between N. Korea China
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits Breeding Station No. 621 of the Korean People's Army, under construction at an undisclosed location in North Korea, in an undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency on May 21, ...
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North Korean Peoples Army
French photographer Eric Lafforgue made six secretive trips to North Korea and managed to capture a different side to the secretive state's army. Above: A female member of the Korean People's Army strokes a dog in Pyongyang, North ...
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DPRK releases Chinese fishermen
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - A Chinese fishing boat held by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) with 16 fishermen onboard was released early on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday. Ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the remarks at a regular press conference here, quoting report by the owner of the vessel. "The crew was safe and the owner did not pay the ...
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Chinese boats captain beaten by North Koreans released after 2 weeks hostage
The owner of a Chinese fishing boat seized for more than two weeks by armed North Koreans says the captors wore military uniforms, and that they beat up the boat's captain and stole its fuel. Owner Yu Xuejun says the captors eventually released the boat Tuesday without the ransom they had demanded. The incident was the latest irritant in relations between North Korea and a Chinese ...
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DPRKs Kim Jong Un has 2 daughters S.Korean media
Kim Jong Un now has two daughters, probably with different women, S.Korea's Chosun Ilbo quoted a source in Beijing as saying. His older brother Kim Jong-chol apparently has a son. The source said Kim Jong Un's wife Ri Sol Ju gave birth to a baby girl late last year. Former NBA star Dennis Rodman, who visited Pyongyang in February this year, said Ri talked mostly about her ...
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U.S. calls on DPRK to exercise restraint
The United States has reiterated its call on the DPRK's leaders to exercise restraint and abide by its international obligations. A spokesman for the US State Department made the remarks in a daily press conference in response to the DPRK's latest missiles launches. "To monitoring the situation, and we continue to urge them to exercise restraint and take steps to improve ...
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Japan tips its hand via North Korea
By Peter Lee The big story in Asia affairs today is a little trip that was supposed to stay a secret: the dispatch of Isao Iijima, adviser to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to meet with senior officials in North Korea, thereby breaking the united US/South Korean/Japanese front in negotiations with Pyongyang. It is the first instance of an overt divergence between Japanese and US ...
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China media North Korea warned
State media in China warn North Korea to stop detaining fishing boats amid public anger over the "kidnapping" of fishermen by unidentified ...
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N Korea releases China sailors
North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, Chinese state-run media said on Tuesday, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage and demanded a ransom. "All the fishermen with the boat are safe on their way back," China's Xinhua news agency said, citing a Chinese embassy official in Pyongyang it said had heard the news from the ship's ...
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Detained Chinese Fishermen Boat Released by North Korea
The official Xinhua news agency reported the development Tuesday, quoting a Chinese consular official in Pyongyang who spoke with the owner of the fishing boat. The official said the men were safe and on their way home, but he gave no other details. The owner of the boat says North Korea was demanding nearly $100,000 for the return of the boat and crew, which were taken May 6 in the waters ...
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Hijacked Chinese Vessel Leaves N.Korea - Agency
BEIJING, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - A Chinese fishing vessel seized by a group of North Koreans in Chinese waters about two weeks ago was released on Tuesday, China’s Xinhua news agency said. Xinhua quoted the ship’s owner as saying that the fishermen aboard the boat were "all safe on their way back." The boat, Liaoning Generic Fishing No. 25222, and its crew are from the ...
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FBI cast reporter as criminal in probe of North Korea leak
WASHINGTON -- In another case of the Obama administration's investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, the government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in a probe that appears to step into uncharted territory -- by declaring that a journalist is committing a crime in disclosing leaked ...
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Obama Chinas Xi to meet earlier than expected amid issues from North Korea to cyberspying
BEIJING, China - China's new leader Xi Jinping will confer with President Barack Obama next month in California, months earlier than their expected first meeting, as both sides seek to stem a drift in relations, troubled by issues from cyberspying to North Korea. The June 7-8 meeting at a retreat southeast of Los Angeles, announced Monday by the White House, underlines the importance of ...
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Can Iijimas trip to North Korea be conducive to solving abduction issue
Is there any chance of finding a toehold to break the long-standing impasse on the problem of Japanese abducted by North Korean agents? The effectiveness of the diplomatic strategy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration is now being tested over the issue. Isao Iijima, special adviser to the Cabinet Secretariat, who visited North Korea from Tuesday to Friday, briefed Chief Cabinet ...
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